Robots are curious beings. They may vary in lifestyle, behavior, design, intelligence... even gender. Indeed, they come in a myriad of ways. But a particularly curious thing about them, humanoid ones in particular, is that no matter where they come from, no matter how they appear, they may have some form of a trait found most commonly on mammals. By which we mean... hair.

The hair in question could resemble normal human hair (or at least attempt to) or it could just be a series of mechanical parts (functional or not) which resemble a hairstyle. Either way, (as with Alien Hair and Non-Mammalian Hair), the main purpose of this trope is to show the audience a humanlike robot either by making it seem more human (since hair on the head is a very specifically human trait, especially for entities that are meant to appear female), or by emphasising a more human-like robot's mechanical nature (by making the "hair" look stiff and unnatural). A variation of the latter often appears in theatre and low budget live action movies with android characters; the actor's hair is fixed with hairspray and a combination of careful trimming and makeup is applied around the hairline (so there's a clear line) to make it look synthetic.

Only list animal examples which clearly have parts designed to resemble a particular feature, like a mane. Cyborgs also count, but only list examples with hair that is actually synthetic (rather than their original hair). Robots and cyborgs who are indistinguishable from normal humans shouldn't be listed unless their hair fits the "makes them look artificial" variation. Humongous Mecha which have styles resembling their pilots' also merit a mention.

A common feature of any Fembot (for which it can serve as Tertiary Sexual Characteristics) and more or less mandatory for a Robot Girl, although masculine robots are not exempt. A Robot Me will have this trope by necessity (unless it's a copy of someone bald, of course). Naturally, other Hair Tropes can be applied to the "hair".

Full Metal Panic!: Gauron's Armslave has a long blond topknot making it resemble an armoured samurai.

Drossel from Fireball has absolutely gigantic pigtails. They can transform into a rocket engine to enable her to fly.

The Operator androids in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Real Drive all have synthetic hair to help them closer resemble humans. People who opt to switch over to prosthetic bodies also have bio-synthetic hair, even though they're now cyborgs instead of being complete robots. In the later category, The Major is unusual for selecting an unnatural colour for her hair.

In Joss Whedon's run on X-Men, the Danger Room developed sapience and (after creating a body from an old Sentinel) became Danger◊. "She" has cables coming out of the back of her head that resemble hair.

Justified with the PICAs in David Weber's Safehold novels. They are built to be a perfect replica of a specific human being. The hair is usually "grown" from ingested organic materials (ie food that the PICA "eats").

Some of the more human-like robots (including Freya the protagonist) in Saturn's Children by Charles Stross have hair.

Ambassador Magma (aka The Space Giants): Magma/Goldar is a "living giant" forged from gold with long gold hair. His normal-sized, human-looking wife and son are also behaired, but it's less unusual on them.

Kryten (previously bald) dons a toupée in the last episode of Red Dwarf VI.

Star Trek: The Next Generation has Data, and his brothers, who are androids designed to be superficially similar to human beings in many ways. Their hair is made to look artificial by heavy application of gel, and keeping Brent Spiner's hairline sharply trimmed.

Fulgore in Killer Instinct is a robot who has a red/brown, ponytail-like protrusion coming from the back of his head.

The Lin Kuei robots in Mortal Kombat had a set of cables on the back of their heads which resembled pony tails.

Most reploids from the Mega Man series (although the eponymous character hides his under his helmet most of the time). Mega Man ZX justifies the trope by explicitly saying it was an attempt to "making humans and reploids closer to each other to make better peace":

Mega Man Zero has Elpizo (blond), Omega (a pinkish/fuchsia ponytail sprouting out from the top of his helmet), and Kraft (dark spiky hair which appears to also form Go Nagai Sideburns), among others. Seeing as Omega's body is a shell/Power Limiter for Zero's original body, this means that Omega also shares Zero's infamous Rapunzel Hair.

Splash Woman (from Mega Man 9) and Fairy Leviathan fall into the "Mechanical Facsimile" category: their helmets frame their faces in a manner that resembles hair (specifically, a Bob Haircut, with a few extra bangs in front in Leviathan's case).

Emeralda in Xenogears. Of course, since she's entirely made of nanomachines, it sort of makes sense that she can make them into hair if she wants to. She also uses it as a weapon in some of her attacks.

In Mass Effect 3, EDI's robot body sports a bob made out of steel. When it was masquerading as Dr. Eva Core, is was most likely made out of synthetic fibers that were burned away in the explosion. Notably, while it looks solid, it can be switched to a mass of hair-like fibres, making it both variations of the trope at once.

EDI: ...and when it gets wet, I can't do anything with it!

In the Fallout 3, there is a side-quest to retrieve the Declaration of Independence. In it, you will eventually encounter a Protectron that due to a malfunction believes himself to be the real Button Gwinnett and wears a powdered wig.

Jade Harley, Dirk Strider, and Andrew Hussie all have robots of themselves complete with matching hair that appear to be carved/shaped out of the same metal used for the body.

Aradia Megido's soulbot has synthetic hair that is the same long, curly hairstyle that she had when she was alive.

The herd of robotic Maplehoofs have the same mane as their living counterpart.

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Kara has a Ridiculously Human Robot who is designed to appear human in just about every way, including a head of short brown hair (which is seen being installed on her significantly more obviously mechanical-at first-body).

Beast Machines: Blackarachnia's robot form sports what appears to be a long mane of something that evokes the appearance of long hair. In Beast Wars she had a headpiece which more resembled a helmet or bob cut instead.

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